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Here's an oddity.   I use a Unicode typeface (Source Sans Pro) that has a fair number of glyphs in it. Yesterday I wanted to add the "Heavy Check Mark" (U+2714) to a document, and it came in as "??". Applying a number of other Unicode supporting fonts didn't change that, either. Strangely, the regular Check Mark (U+2713) worked just fine. Not the look I wanted, but I can live with it.   I just thought it odd that FM couldn't display the glyph at all. In fact, there are a lot of glyphs in that section that FM can't display. 

I'm trying to wrap an xml element within a fm element. The Dev Guide describes how read/write rules could unwrap, rename  elements,... but nothing like wrapping an element. Is this possible to do with r/w rules when reading an xml file?

HiRecently we have had problems with pdfs generated from Framemaker 12, edited in Acrobat, uploaded to a web portal, and then opened in Google Chrome browser. Only the first page is shown, the rest is blank.  The reason for why I think the problem is Framemaker is because I have the latest version of Acrobat and Chrome but an old version of Framemaker. So some change might have made them incompatible. Has anyone else experienced this? Or anyone has a solution?One workaround is to download the pdf first, then open it, or open it in another browser, but I get people error reporting on this all the time and I can't tell them one by one how to open it.  

Hi Is there a way to automatically add periods at the end of a sentence or paragraph when ENTER key is pressed?

how do i preview .fm files as same as high quality pdf ? (mainly graphics)Im using Framemaker 2019 version Thanks in advance

I am working with an Index. What I want at the top of the page is to show the text from the first GroupTitlesIX on the page followed by a dash and the text of the last GroupTitleIX on the page. For example, if the first GroupTitlesIX on the page is A and the last one is E, I want to see A–E at the top of the page.   Unfortunately, what I'm getting is A–   The master page is set up using two different running header variables:   Running H/F 10–Running H/F 11   Running H/F 10 is defined as <$paratext[GroupTitlesIX]> Running H/F 11 is defined as <$paratext[+GroupTitlesIX]>   Am I missing something, or is this just not possible to do?

Hello there. I'm using FM2019 and when I tried to convert XML and SGM format to PDF, it doesnt work. I opened a XML or SGM file and press "Menu - Save as PDF".Then a pop-up showed up and said "PDF successfully generated" while in the background the console said "Cannot save C\Users\[user name]\Appdata\Local\Temp\[file name.tmp]".Then I cannot find the PDF file anywhere and when I press the "View PDF" button in the pop-up, nothing happens.I uninstalled Adobe Acrobat and FM 2019 and reinstalled only FM 2019 but it didn't solve the problem.Also I tried everything the solutions in the help pages but the problem stays.So PLEASE HELP!!! I currently work in Windows10 64 bits and no Adobe Acrobat or Distiller. Thank you. 

I'm brining a batch of FrameMaker 8 files into FrameMaker 2015. When I am done I will need to archive the updated files and make MIF - or the equivalent - from the new files. What is the process? Thanks.

Hi all,I'm converting a bunch of files from FM 8 to FM 2019. When I open the FM 8 files in FM 2019, the images that were imported and copied into the FM 8 files are corrupted and appear as gray boxes in FM 2019. I don't have the source image files to import by reference into FM 2019, so I really need the images to survive the conversion to FM 8. Any suggestions? (PS The images that were imported by reference are fine, of course. The paths are retained.)Thanks!

Dear Framemaker community. I have a big problem with that, I spent a long time researching and couldn't find a solution. I don't know how to find too long words in tables, too long for a column width. It's not about a text overflow in table cell. I already scripted that. Here are a cells that are not overflowed in normal classic way. FM just breaks too long words into pieces without any warnings. I know I could hyphenate these places but I would love to know how to find these first. If you just give me a little clue how to find these places, I could script it for my needs, big thank you in advance! Les

I am building a small catalog in FrameMaker 2020. It is a product catalog and I create a separate fm file for each product. These files are then imported into the catalog file. When I import the product file I get an option to use the stylesheet of my catalog file and map it with that of the imported product files. This works fine for paragraph and character properties, but less so for object properties. It seems that FrameMaker does not do any mapping when it comes to object properties tags.Am I the only one to experience this? 

HelloI am trying to update a chapter in a framemaker book. FrameMaker keeps inserting a odd-numbered page (page v) for no reason. I've tried to delete the page and updating the book, but Framemaker (2019, by the way) keeps re-inserting the unwanted page. I've tried to delete the page by: 1) Right-clicking on the file, selecting "Pagination" and then in the "Before Saving and Printing" dialog, select "Delete Empty Pages.2) Format - Docuemtnt - Delete Pages FrameMaker keeps adding the page. Should I try deleting in the file outside of the book? I'm stumped. 

We are using Adobe Framemaker 2019 with Adobe Professional 2017.  For the past week, we have been having issues with the Adobe pdf printer inadvertently disappearing.  The only solution we have so far is to uninstall and reinstall Adobe Pro.  We cannot keep doing this so I have reached out to Adobe support for a solution but have not heard back yet.  This seems to only be happening to those of us in the company using FrameMaker 2019.  Is anyone else having this problem that can offer a solution? We don't know if there is a company involved script or something like that causing this. 

Hello using Structured Framemaker 2017 w. an S1000D imported template. Can not change xref colors to blue. I change it in Character Designer and when I setup to print to postscript, it changes back (before even hitting the Print button). IDK if it's the rules in my template, IDK how to even view my template. The pull-down box at the top right reads "XML/Structured." Found this prev link: https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker/how-can-i-color-xrefs-in-fm-2017/m-p/9869861?page=1#M55405 but it is of no help. I do not get the tags shown in the screen caps.

I downloaded and installed the 2020 FDK to checkout some property defintions to see if there had been any change. Of course you always open the fdkreference.pdf to look there first. It was the 2017 document, not the 2020. In fact all 3 FDK documents are for 2017 (I compared them). The other two remain as 7 documents, which is another problem all together. The .h files I checked, appear to be correct (#define FDK_LIBRARY_VERSION 0x16000000), so it looks like only the documentation is not 2020. The Reference guide available at this link, The complete API reference , does appear to be for 2020, but, bizarrely, has no version reference! For what it is worth I have created a bug, FRMAKER-9169 , which you may care to vote up. I have attached two screenshots showing the 2017 reference from the 2020 FDK and the reference downloaded from the link above. Jon

When "saving a Frame 2015" file as a PDF the square bullet character defined in the Bulleted paragraph tags does not display in the generated PDF file. This is a new issue since PDFs were generating fine up until a month or so ago. I did have to swap out the original Zapf Dingbat font (old post script font) that produces the square bullet with a different font, ITC Zapf Dingbat.First screen shot w/bullets, second one no bulletsAny suggestions how I can fix this?

HiSomething has been bugging me for a while.Let's say I import an image called screenshot.png. Later, I find I am not happy with the image so I take a new screenshot. I rename it screenshot.png and replace the old one in the folder. In Framemaker, the image is then replaced as well. But, as the dimensions are not exactly the same, the image doesn't look good in the document. So I have to delete the image and the anchored frame in Framemaker and import the image again. I wish there was some way to mark the anchored frame and say "adjust to image original dimensions" or something like that.  (I don't know the correct terms, maybe dimensions is not what you would use)

Anyone know an easy way to find all images, in a book, that have more than one reference to them. To import FM books to RoboHelp, we're finding there must be a seperate instance of each repeated image. 

I'm practicing with CourierNew box drawings characters.Before, looking just fine:  Then I replaced the XYZ with new "light horizontal" characters. (copy and paste from same line.) The html5 (or chm) output suddenly has replaced the "down and horizontal" character with something unknown - even though I didn't touch any of the characters in that area.    I can't understand why this happens, and how to avoid it. 

Hello All,   I'm constantly getting these messages when I try to save my FM 2019 files. I've cleared the temporary folders and done a MIF wash.  This is a real PITA! Any other sugestions?   Thanks!       Sam  

I am trying to create my first script using the ExtendScript tool in order to publish my DITA bookmaps automatically (without the need to set the stuff in the UI).The script can successfully open the corresponding bookmap in FrameMaker 2020. However, the Publish variables such as the Settings Files, Output folder as well as the Ditaval file are not updated based on the script. The Publish pod simply shows the previously defined seetings etc. In order to call the publisher I used the sample script from the following link.How to access the Publisher module  Could anyone please help me get that right?  Here is the main function:function publishIFU(scanner, language, outputType){var mainPath, ifuFile, settingsFile, ditavalFile;var outputFolder;mainPath = getMainPath(scanner, language);ifuFile = getIFUFile(mainPath, scanner, language);settingsFile = getSettingsFile(mainPath, scanner, language);ditavalFile = getDitavalFile(mainPath, scanner);outputFolder = mainPath+"/outp

Hi. I have problems with the triangle symbole in FrameMaker. It is ok in the FrameMaker file, but in the pdf file, it is just a line. I don`t know what the problem is.. Can anybody help? Linda    

I am new to Adobe ExtendScript, I would like to know how I can replace the tilde (~) with the absolute path of user's home directory? In my script, I need to find the absolute path of the script itself. To do this, I use: var scriptPath = File($.fileName).pathBut this gives me a tilde for the first part which is not recognized by the FrameMaker as user's home directory; therefore, I cannot use it to pinpoint where my files are located.

Is there a reason why animated .gifs don't work in FM or publish to pdf? & will they in the next version of Tech Comm suite?I'd like to use short explainer .gifs in FM (don't think silly video Facebook stuff, think sensible short explainer video, but lighter weight) and at the moment I'd need to export to .pdf and have the animation work, with control over auto-start or not (mostly not). It doesn't seem to be possible now as the 'gifs don't animate in FM or when converted to .pdf. But it seems such an obvious thing to want to do? Am I missing something?I really don't want to have to do manual changes in Acrobat for a 500 page document. Oh and Is it likely there'll be a new version of TechComm suite any time soon?

Does anybody know if the Publisher module is exposed to FM's Extendscript (or FDK)? I looked through all of the scripting info and the FDK info, .h and config files and couldn't find any references to it other than the TPUBforFMDoc (Book/DITA  esc ph shortcut) command. I need to kick off the Publish module after some manipulation and use a specified STS file depending upon the manipulation.